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Manus

✓ verifiedFreemium

General-purpose autonomous AI agent that plans and runs multi-step tasks such as building sites, slides and research in the cloud.

28M visits/mo89K saves

Claude

✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves

Chat01.ai

✓ verifiedFreemium

A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.

103K visits/mo

Jan.ai

✓ verifiedFree

Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.

378K visits/mo609 saves

BoltAI

✓ verifiedPaid

Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.

81K visits/mo33K saves

Pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0

Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month

Max: From $100/month

Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)

Enterprise: Contact sales

Free: $0 (2 credits/day)

Starter: $9.99/mo (30 credits/day)

Basic: $19.99/mo (100 credits/day)

Pro: $39.99/mo (300 credits/day)

Credit packs: $9.99 / $19.99 / $79.99

No public pricing

Essential: $79 (1 seat, one-time)

Pro: $99 (2 seats + 1 mobile, one-time)

Team Perpetual: $99/seat/year

Free trial available

Core features

✦Autonomous multi-step task execution
✦Website and app building
✦AI slides, design and image generation
✦Manus browser operator
✦Wide Research mode
✦Cross-platform web, desktop and mobile apps

✦Conversational writing and editing
✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
✦Data analysis and visualization
✦Web search plus memory across chats
✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
✦Extended thinking for complex tasks

✦Access to premium OpenAI models
✦Daily free credits
✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
✦Invite-based bonus credits

✦Run open-source LLMs locally
✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
✦Open source and self-hostable
✦Model library via Hugging Face
✦Cross-platform desktop app

✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
✦MCP tools and code execution
✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys

Use cases

→Automate end-to-end digital tasks
→Produce websites and presentations
→Conduct broad research
→Hand off browser tasks to an agent

→Drafting and refining written content
→Building and debugging software
→Analyzing datasets for insights
→Research and learning support
→Team and enterprise automation

→Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
→Solve complex reasoning problems
→Occasional AI use on free daily credits

→Private local AI chat
→Using multiple models in one app
→Avoiding cloud data sharing
→Experimenting with open models

→Using multiple AI providers in one place
→Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
→Building reusable task-specific agents
→Analyzing documents and screenshots privately

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